Eternity's Pillar by Alice Coltrane LE (Region Free) Blu-ray

Seventeen episodes (514 minutes) of Eternity’s Pillar (1985–1988) television programme, directed by and starring Alice Coltrane Swami Turiyasangitananda. This 2 x Blu-ray set contains nearly 9 hours of seldom-seen transmissions from the jazz visionary and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane. In 1985, KTTV Channel 11 (an independent, commercial, Los Angeles-based TV station) began broadcasting Eternity’s Pillar every Sunday after midnight. Long thought lost, seventeen officially licensed episodes from the Coltrane archive are lovingly presented here, overflowing with devotional wisdom, meditation, and music.

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Black Journal #26: Alice Coltrane, A Love Supreme (1970, 15 minutes) documentary segment, made for TV and shot on 16mm film, featuring an interview with Alice Coltrane at the Dix Hills, NY Coltrane family home where she recorded most of her Impulse! albums, and footage from a Glen Cove performance with Pharoah Sanders, Reggie Workman, Bill Wood, and Rashied Ali. Including new optional English subtitles.

Limited edition full colour 80-page book containing a detailed episode guide, Alice Coltrane’s written responses to questions about Eternity’s Pillar, a new interview with Michelle Coltrane, a remembrance by Jaya Lakshmi Moss, three new essays – by Kevin Le Gendre, Ross Wallace Chait, and Nick Wrigley, and writing about Black Journal #26: Alice Coltrane, A Love Supreme.

Limited Edition, 2 x Blu-rays (both BD50), region free (ABC)